Larry Hyman and Peter Jenks have published chapters in Syntax in Uncharted Territories: Essays in Honor of Maria Polinsky, edited by Laura Clemens, Vera Gribanova, and Gregory Scontras:
Larry M. Hyman, "Bantu verb stem morphotactics revisited"
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9vb1h3cg
Peter Jenks, "Hyperraising from TP in Moro"
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2td561zq
The full volume on eScholarship is available here: https://escholarship.org/uc/uci_langsci_festschrifts_polinsky
The 2024-2025 colloquium series continues on Monday, February 3, with a talk by visiting scholar Carol Rose Little (University of Oklahoma), taking place in Dwinelle 370 and on Zoom (passcode: lx-colloq) from 3:10-4:30pm. Her talk is entitled "The syntax of accompanying in Ch’ol (Mayan)." In addition to the syntactic analysis, Carol Rose will discuss connections to her work as a Ch'ol courtroom interpreter. The abstract is as follows:
Here's the latest from the California Language Archive:
Here are some photos of Berkeley linguists from the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (January 9-12 in Philadelphia)!
In and around the Department of Linguistics in the next week:
Anushah Hossain (Script Encoding Initiative) gave a talk entitled "ISCII Imperialism: The Legacy of a Devanagari-Centric Character Code" on January 18 at Face/Interface, a conference on global type design at Stanford University.
She also gave an online talk on January 23 for World Endangered Writing Day titled "Script Encoding: The Future," which reviewed the Script Encoding Initiative's past work and new directions.
Congrats to the Berkeley linguists who will be presenting their work at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, taking place online from January 24 to 26:
Congratulations to Nicole Holliday on her new article, "My Memoji, my self: Prosodic correlates of online performed code-switching via avatar," published in Linguistics Vanguard!
Oliver Whitmore (French) presented a talk at the 2025 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, held in New Orleans from January 9-12, titled "Disputing Diglossia: When a sociolinguist doesn't see language."
Congratulations to Susanne Gahl on her new article (with R. Harald Baayen), "Time and thyme again: Connecting English spoken word duration to models of the mental lexicon," Language 100.4 (2024), 623-670.
Congratulations to Hannah Sande, who published a chapter, "Insertion or deletion? CVCV/CCV alternations in Kru languages," in a new volume Epenthesis and beyond: Recent approaches to insertion in phonology and its interfaces with Language Science Press, available here: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/469.
Andrew Garrett, Madeleine Strait, Rhosean Asmah, and Julia Peck attended the January workshop of the Yurok Language Program in Klamath on the Yurok Reservation, where Andrew led a session on numerals and the Yurok lunar calendar system. Andrew was recognized with a gift and gratitude for his longtime engagement and prioritization of community requests and needs! They also visited Rek'woy, the place where the Klamath River, now undammed thanks in part to Yurok and Karuk activism, flows freely into the Pacific Ocean (pictured).
'Echkwoh Rek'woy 'o tenem'.
There are a lot of sea lions at Rek'woy.
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies just launched a free (non-credit) Mam class for the spring semester. See here for more information.
Greg LeBlanc's podcast unSILOed features a new interview with Andrew Garrett on "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall — Revisiting the Past and Renaming the Present" (including both audio and video versions).
Maksymilian Dąbkowski published a squib on "A Q-Theoretic Solution to A’ingae Postlabial Rounding" in Linguistic Inquiry. The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00550. Congrats, Maks!
Plus an event during break:
A review by Chloé Laplantine of Andrew Garrett's book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California has appeared in the journal Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46/2 (2024):
Jennifer Kaplan (UC Berkeley): "Gender in/and French: Teaching Inclusive French in the First-Year Language Classroom and Beyond"
